Instagram Caption Character Counter — 2,200 Limit
Live character count with platform limits: Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube titles, meta descriptions and real SMS segment math.
Processed entirely in your browser — nothing you enter here is ever uploaded.
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About this tool
This page opens the character counter preset to Instagram captions: paste your caption and see how much of the 2,200-character limit it uses, live as you edit.
Instagram allows up to 2,200 characters per caption (the same budget includes your hashtags), but only the first line or two show in the feed before the "more" fold — so the counter helps with both jobs: staying under the hard cap and knowing how much you have written before trimming the hook.
Emoji are counted as single characters, matching what Instagram does. If your caption is over, the bar turns red and the remaining counter goes negative, so you can cut precisely instead of guessing. Your text is processed entirely in your browser.
Example. The word hello counts as 5 characters, leaving 275 of the 280 Twitter/X limit and one GSM-7 SMS segment with 155 characters spare.
Limit. One character outside the GSM-7 alphabet switches the whole message to UCS-2, 70 characters or 67 per split segment, and the Twitter tally does not apply CJK double-weight or t.co link length.